besteiro

Galician

besteiro f (plural besteiros)

(military) crossbowman
- 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 323:
  Et ena vila auia moytos boos beesteyros, que du elles feriã nõ tĩjna prol escudo nẽ outra arma
  In this town there were many good crossbowmen, and where they hit, the shield or other weapons were useless

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “baesteiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
“besteiro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “besteiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “besteiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “besteiro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese baesteiro, from Latin bālistārius, corresponding to besta (“crossbow”) +‎ -eiro.

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /bɛsˈte(j).ɾu/ [bɛsˈte(ɪ̯).ɾu], (nonstandard, but very common) /besˈte(j).ɾu/ [besˈte(ɪ̯).ɾu]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /bɛʃˈte(j).ɾu/ [bɛʃˈte(ɪ̯).ɾu], (nonstandard, but very common) /beʃˈte(j).ɾu/ [beʃˈte(ɪ̯).ɾu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /bɛsˈte(j).ɾo/ [bɛsˈte(ɪ̯).ɾo], (nonstandard, but very common) /besˈte(j).ɾo/ [besˈte(ɪ̯).ɾo]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɛʃˈtɐj.ɾu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɛʃˈtej.ɾu/
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɛʃˈtej.ɾu/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɛʃˈte.ɾu/

besteiro m (plural besteiros, feminine besteira, feminine plural besteiras)